Incredible Feats

Now this is peak performance: Jordan Romero is the youngest person to summit the tallest mountain in the world… And he didn’t stop there.

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He’s the first person to ever hold 100 World Records at once. Ashrita Furman broke so many records, he invented new games just so he could set new records. 

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Brace for impact… With the plane’s engines failing and 155 lives on the line, veteran pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III had seconds to decide his next course of action.

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Sarah Breedlove’s job prospects were slim, so she started her own business—and in 1919, the daughter of two formerly enslaved people became a self-made millionaire.

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Hold your breath: In 2016, William Trubridge broke the world record for freediving, which he had set himself back in 2011. 

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Barbara Hillary was the first African American woman to reach both poles... which she did in her 70s, after surviving lung cancer.

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Annie Oakley was an extraordinary markswoman, and the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

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Peggy Whitson has spent more time in space than any other NASA astronaut… And that’s not the only space record she holds.

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In 2006, a dire circumstance unlocked superhuman strength in Tom Boyle. Nine years later, a similar scenario helped 19-year-old Charlotte Heffelmire save a life.

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In 2018, Andrzej Bargiel’s climb up the world’s second highest mountain took three days. But it was his eight-hour ski descent that set a record. 

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